fried spinach with ikan bilis
lately I have been frying my vegetables mostly with chopped garlic (蒜蓉炒), cut chilli padi & a bit of oyster sauce. 🙂
I used to do more of the cornflour, also with oyster sauce, but lately I find that vegetables have a lot of liquids, and if you fry them without adding water, they are dryer & more flavourful, or more wok hae.
of course there is a school that says you have to add a little water at the end on high fire so that the evaporation/vapour brings out the wok hae. maybe so.
currently I am just happy with my 干炒 method la!
recently I had a nice 3pax lunch with sis & bil at ye shanghai on 7.4.2017. ^^
it was a small plate maybe cost S$1.50, quite enough as we had 7 small plate vegetable dishes. a very simple dish, and so very tasty.
I fried ikan bilis, cut chilli padi in 2 tbsp oil, then added the spinach stems & chopped garlic, frying under high heat. then added the spinach leaves. added 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce & keeping it on high heat.
this spinach was excellent, with the ikan bilis texture & flavours, very tasty & sweet.
so easy to do, and sis thought it was better than ye shanghai…I thought so too! haha! ^^
c.h.e.f andy
